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Episode 25: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

America This Week

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Detecting Factual Inaccuracies in Podcasts

CNN has developed an automated method for detecting factual inaccuracies by entering a series of search terms that they can then associate with the transcripts. The technique is rendered in English prose so opaque that no one who reads it will ever want to read it again and will just simply assume that they've got some great engineering process behind their censorship machine. What you're also seeing here, it sounds like a kuberickian villain talking about guaranteed mutual destruction or something in nuclear theory.

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